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When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

— Erik Hassle

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

— Anthony Edwards

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

— Corey Feldman

Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty.

— Teri Hatcher

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

— Chingy

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

— Chloe Sevigny

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

— Alicia Vikander

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

— Matisyahu

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

— Steve Valentine